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It is much to be regretted that we have been misunderstanding Jiang yan's status and Scholar Jiang's talent being exhausted". Influenced by the context of literature history, most readers considered Jiang Yan as a writer and set relevant demand to him. As a matter of fact, during Jiang's real lifetime, he always cherished a lofty ideals of making great contribution to royal court, strived perseveringly for political life, and finally he achieved his official goal, while what readers constantly appreciated and recalled is his literary life stricken by frustration and disappointment, which reflects many Chinese ancient scholars' life contradiction in history context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at Zhu Xi's ... commentary on the "Zhounan" ... and "Shaonan" ... sections in his Shift zhuan ... in an attempt to show how, in the Confucian hermeneutical tradition, the commentator goes beyond merely giving explanations of particular words and sentences to engage in reconstructing a picture of an ideal world embedded in the text. We suggest that in the process of examining the meaning of a single word or sentence, an entire section, or even the arrangement of individual works in a classic, Confucian commentators pull together varied elements to construct a picture of an ideal world that either ought to exist or is preserved in the text. (At times the annotator will go beyond the scope of a single work and bring in elements from other classics in his discussion to give an even more detailed and elaborate view of that ideal world). Armed with this utopian vision, the Confucian then goes on to size up the world in which he lives in relation to the ideal world of the classics and offer up educational or political methods that would help shorten the distance between the present and the classical ideal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]